2016 was a busy and fruitful year for us. We released our third studio album, toured all over North America and Europe, and played our music on countless stages, both large and small (some very, very small). But now it's time for us to compose all new material and move forward as a band.

Time, however, is difficult to set aside for the unglamorous task of hanging out in our basement practice space and testing new ideas until we find something that works. So this year we plan to try something new; we plan to go on a two week retreat to a cabin recording studio owned by our label, Northern Spy Records. There we can escape from the distractions of everyday life and focus on composing a new album's worth of music.

Once we hone our new songs through live performance we can record them using the process we have developed with our previous three albums. We have increasingly handled a lot of the engineering and mixing ourselves--which we would be able to do much better with higher quality equipment--but we will also continue turn to Chris Freeland (Wye Oak, Lower Dens) for help to achieve the best results we're capable of.